Sorry this is a heavy topic. I have to be specific to explain it. I have done EMDR therapy, eye movement reprocessing of traumatic incidents. Most of which I had complete memory of, but EMDR is known to increase nightmares, and it brought up some older unresolved memories.

They are very incomplete. I only know parts of them are true. Anyway, I will have this recurring dream since about three years ago. Maybe 6 times or so total. And I'm asking the person what happened (the person is deceased in real life, can't ask them). I then see my child self as a separate person in the dream, she sometimes talks to me, he starts to tell me, it flashes to a scene with the same theme every time and I wake up heart racing and scared like I purposely "left" the dream and decided I didn't want to know.

I always want to know, until it comes to that moment in the dream. I'm the one asking. But I always leave.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense. This site seems very knowledgable about dreaming and I've always thought, since I've been a vivid dreamer for many years, a creative in real life, that more studies should be done on dreaming and the psyche. I would love to hear your thoughts or see if anyone's experienced anything similar, if anyone here has questions in real life that they go to ask in a dream, but it's traumatic or unresolved, how do you resolve it? Can it be resolved in a dream??